Alvor Travel Guide

by our Portugal expert Conrad Freethy

Pretty Alvor with its cobbles climbing to the church adorned with ornate Manueline detail is picture-postcard stuff. Soak up the beaches on the doorstep and visit those nearer lively Portimão to the west, like Praia dos Três Irmãos with its fiery red cliffs. Alto Golf near Alvor was the last course to be designed by the legendary Sir Henry Cotton.